Strike Fighters 2 Screenshots Thread

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'Grey Dragon' 2004

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Got diverted into DA Nang..........Freedom Bird on the ramp.

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Menu of the day:bridge busting!

 

 

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1983, a Armeé de l'Air Transall lands at dusk at  forward air base somewhere in the Sahel. 

To be continued!

Soon is unloaded of all its cargo, and the boxes moved to a nearby makeshift hangar...

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[+allenjb42 4,234]

As QRA at RAF Coningsby we scrambled into a typically English overcast late Autumn morning...

Contact had been lost with an Austrian Airlines flight from Vienna to London, Heathrow. ATC was still tracking it and although it was on course it was in a shallow descent someway before it was due to lose altitude and commence approach. We were given permission to go supersonic and made our approach to the Airbus from the rear..

It started a turn, again keeping to it's assigned course, but still descending, and we rolled to turn with it before continuing to close..

  

My wingman was the first to notice. 'Something doesn't look right about the configuration Lead..'

'It's the doors!' I gasped. ' All of the doors are open..'

We made a slow pass, and sure enough all of the doors, passenger and cargo, had somehow opened. But how? A bomb? A mechanical fault? And what of the crew and passengers?

As we passed the cockpit I spotted a torch flashing in morse code. E-L-E-C S-T-O-R-M || M-L-T-P-L L-I-G-H-T-N-G S-T-R-K-S || L-O-S-T P-R-S-R || P-S-G-R-S C-R-W O-N O-X-Y || L-N-D-G L-H-R A-S-A-P||

I passed the message to base: They had flown through an electrical storm and had suffered multiple lightning strikes. The aircraft's electric systems had obviously been affected which had caused the doors to unlock and blow open. This had caused a decompression (hence the shallow descent, to try to minimise the effects) and crew and passengers were on oxygen. They were intending to land at London Heathrow still.

ATC took moments to digest this and the response was quick - get them to another airfield, but not Heathrow. The risk that this was a ruse for a terrorist attack was too great.  

Before I had a chance to reply to the airliner we dropped into the clouds and I called Two in closer as we stuck grimly to the Airbus, not wanting to lose sight of it in the descent..

As we dropped through the overcast I moved up and passed on the message to the airliner crew. Their response - N-C-D || L-H-R O-N-L-Y 

Querying base for orders we were told to to just stick with the Airbus and while investigations into the passengers and crew continued. If this was a terrorist attack or a madman in the pilot seat, would we be cleared to shoot down the airliner?

We were running out of time, the aircraft was still descending and we were now coming up on populated areas. A shootdown now could cause catastrophic damage on the ground..

And then we were out of time for a decision, as we came over Central London, with visibility still poor in the low cloud and rain squalls...

The Airbus lowered it's undercarriage slowly. They must be using some emergency method..

I closed to get a better look and signalled to the crew the wheels looked to be down OK.

    

I dropped back to watch as the airliner made it's final approach. Orders were still to remain on standby to shoot it down if necessary. What did they expect us to do at this late stage? Strafe it on the runway? 

And then it was down and stopped on the runway. We pulled clear as emergency vehicles swarmed around it and a fleet of air ambulances were cleared in to begin ferrying the most severely hurt to hospitals. We didn't see any of that as we headed back to base, treating Londoners to a flyby as we crossed the capital again, although whether they could see us in the murky weather is debateable..

And home to a rainy afternoon, Maybe there'll be something good to watch on the telly...

  

[+daddyairplanes 10,228]

ok, how'd you get the Airbus to fly doors open, presuming it to be AI?

mandatory screenie, or just another day at the DA labs

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6 hours ago, daddyairplanes said:

ok, how'd you get the Airbus to fly doors open, presuming it to be AI?

 

 

I have absolutely no idea!

I set up the mission to be a simple intercept of the Airbus (actually the 'real' mission was to intercept a Tu-95 on a recon run off the North Sea coast but I set up a couple of F-15Cs out of Lakenheath to take care of that). The story was that the airliner's navigation equipment had gone down and we would form up on it and lead it down through the clouds and onto the runway.

I was as surprised as anyone when I got in visual range, and the flyby to check over the airliner was real. I re-wrote the story in my head on the fly as I tracked the Airbus down and over London until it landed.

Funny thing is I've flown the mission a few more times since then because I thought I had set something wrong, maybe with the airliner dropping below stall speed, and it has been absolutely fine...

 

Maybe TK programmed in a secret setting - RandomCatastrophicMishap=TRUE

 

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[+allenjb42 4,234]

Vulcan in the Valleys..

Showing it's teeth..

Heading for home..

 

[franconinja14 954]

My first 10 years of life summarized in 2 photos

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On 6/16/2021 at 8:09 AM, guuruu said:

Amazing .

 

 

 

do you have the link for this drone mod?

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PLEASE!!!!! Do =NOT= quote posts with images still attached

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I believe that mod is still under test ....?

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161 NEW TAILS

[+daddyairplanes 10,228]

just a shot, from late 1965

or early 1966

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About the nearest I will get to a Greek holiday this year .. 

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